Wow! That was something! The Jews of Cuba

 
 

What a story!

What an incredible talk!

Some 70 of us gathered on the powerful day of Lag Baomer to learn about the human spirit. To hear how one individual stood up to hate and Antisemitism and ambraced the very people his father so hated.

Dr. Bernd Wollschleager took us on his life journey from finding out his father was a German Tank Commander, to embracing the Jewish community, moving to Israel and serving in the IDF.

An important lesson on how people can change and can choose not to continue their parents' evil ways.

Special thanks to all our sponsors: Bob Sacks, Jeffrey and Kristina Krenzel, Lisa Freeman, Marving Schneider and Halley and Ruth Anne Faust. 

Thanks to our volunteers who helped organize the event: Kristina Krenzel, Cherie Hughes, Gen Goldy, Damien Pretto, Matis and Nissi Weiser and Yaszmina Nedboy! 

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Tuesday: Yom Yerushalayim with the Women's Circle

This Tuesday Evening marks 50 years of the re-unification of Jerusalem!

Join the Women's Circle to celebrate the miracles of the Six-Day-War and the liberation of the Western Wall. Watch a short film, and hear about Israeli innovation from our own Santa Fean Sabra Raya Albin. Tuesday, 6:00pm 

RSVP Yaszmina@Jewishwomenscircle.com (women only event)

 

BLINTZES AND INSPIRATION INTERNATIONAL SHAVUOT!

Next we celebrate an International Shavuot Celebration!

Three international Rabbinical Students, from Brazil and Belgium who will be spending the holiday with us, teaching, sharing, fabrenging!  

Some highlights: 

  • Tuesday, May 30, all-Night Study

  • Wed. May 31 Community Dairy Dinner including Cuba Then and Now a talk by Stuart Ashman a Cuban Jew. Sponsored by Stephen and Jane Hochberg

  • Thu. June 1, services and NY Deli Lunch! More info here

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 The Hochberg Kid's Club ended on a high note, we learned so much Hebrew and Jewish history with lots of hands-on projects!

Thank you Steve and Jane Hochberg for supporting Jewish education in Santa Fe! Thank you Morah Batsheva for a great year!

We wish the Martin family lots of success in California, we will miss you : (

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Hope you enjoy the snow....

Hope to see you tomorrow at 10:00am!

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Berel and Devorah Leah
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Torah and Tea
 


Torah and Tea

TORAH AND TEA
A weekly women’s group with Devorah Leah.

Date: Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00am
Location: Santa Fe Jewish Center

Looking for inspiration? Camaraderie? Support?
Spiritual insights into life? Stimulating discussions?

Introducing a brand new discussion group at Chabad!

Join us every Wednesday for a Women's Torah & Tea get-together. Enjoy stimulating discussions on contemporary and relevant ideas in Judaism over steaming cups of tea and cake.

Adult Education
 

Adult Education

Adult Education

Join the weekly study groups on various topics of interest!

Mondays, 6:00-7:00pm: Explore the fascinating weekly Torah reading with Rabbi Berel Levertov

Tuesdays, 8:30-9:30am: Talmud Study

Saturday: 10:30-11:00am: Kabbalah Study

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Of Interest
 
Weekly Parshah

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai

On the mountain of Sinai, G‑d communicates to Moses the laws of the Sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all, man and beast.

Seven Sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year—the Jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold revert to their original owners. Additional laws governing the sale of lands, and the prohibitions against fraud and usury, are also given.

G‑d promises that if the people of Israel will keep His commandments, they will enjoy material prosperity and dwell secure in their homeland. But He also delivers a harsh “ rebuke,” warning of the exile, persecution and other evils that will befall them if they abandon their covenant with Him. Nevertheless, “Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away; nor will I ever abhor them, to destroy them and to break My covenant with them; for I am the L‑rd their G‑d.”

The Parshah concludes with the rules on how to calculate the values of different types of pledges made to G‑d.

 
 
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The 24 books of the Bible were canonized by the Anshei Knesset Hagedolah. Any later works are not considered Divinely inspired.
  
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